Grant Morrison is disappointed in Jason Momoa's Lobo

The acclaimed comics writer took to the internet to share a few choice words about Momoa's take on DC's Main Man.

Grant Morrison is disappointed in Jason Momoa's Lobo

While most of us have accepted that Craig Gillespie’s Supergirl didn’t quite meet its potential and have since moved on to other things—like, say, relitigating how nuts it is that Marvel couldn’t make a Blade movie!—acclaimed comics scribe Grant Morrison is just now getting around to DC Studios’ June release. “I watched Supergirl, which wasn’t terrible but wasn’t especially great either,” they wrote on their Substack blog Xanaduum. And while faint praise directed at Supergirl from the writer of All-Star Superman and Animal Man certainly feels like news in itself, Morrison has also dropped a few choice words about Jason Momoa’s overblown cameo appearance in the film as Lobo, DC’s notorious Czarnian bounty hunter. First, Morrison teed up their complaints by saying something nice about Supergirl herself, Milly Alcock. “All the best and most moving scenes involved Millie Alcock, and I thought she did a credible job…. Jason Momoa, who I was actually looking forward to, was very disappointing as Lobo.”

Just as faint praise must feel like grace from a writer of Morrison’s caliber, damning criticism must feel like having all the warmth of one’s body sapped from them in an instant; at any rate, Morrison did not hold back in their critique of the actor’s performance. “It was, in fact, one of the worst performances I’ve ever seen in a film and quite baffling, as I know Momoa’s not usually that bad and Lobo seems like a character made for him to play. Go figure.” There remain no official multi-film plans for DC’s Main Man, though the actor has spoken about the prospects of future outings as Lobo.

Morrison went on to correctly diagnose Supergirl‘s story issues—”all Supergirl had to do was bring Krypto with her to that yellow sun world, and the sun’s rays would have made the dog invulnerable again”—and take a poke at the film’s disposable villain, Krem Of The Yellow Hills. “They needn’t have bothered chasing after the dull and low-level Romanian gangster baddie [to] get the antidote after all!” Morrison also took the occasion to lightly reassess their initial take on Lanterns, which we also reckon is a pretty decent program. “The show has picked up nicely… I’ll watch until the end, but it’s probably not worth having any more opinions about the show until then. So shove that up your green ring, clickbait creators!” Hey, c’mon, Morrison—this clickbait chump adores your work!

 
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